Issue In the Netherlands, the National Public Health Foresight Study (PHF) is published every 4 years, as starting point for national and local public health policy development. As these policies impact citizens’ health and lives, it is important to include their voices. We piloted an approach to strengthen …

The paper describes the first implementation of the Unified Citizen Engagement Approach (UCEA), a newly developed design-oriented framework for citizen engagement in the energy transition. The preliminary testing and evaluation of several of its pathways in Groningen, the Netherlands, show that the role …

Jij bent de onderzoeker!Hoe is het om onderzoek te doen en hoe voelt het om een echte onderzoeker te zijn? Kruip in de huid van een onderzoeker en doe proefjes met verschillende meetinstrumenten.Als wetenschapper aanwezig om de burgerwetenschapsactie meet de regen te promoten en om met kinderen/ouders …

Onderzoek met publieke en particuliere partijen, door vijf hogescholen in tien wijken, heeft geresulteerd in nieuwe kennis over meten, beleven en doen ten aanzien van klimaatadaptie. Klimaatadaptatie blijkt nog beperkt te leven onder inwoners. Toch eindigde dit onderzoek met honderden concrete oplossingen …

One neighborhood in Groningen, the Netherlands, is a neighborhood housing about 12,000 citizens with on average a low-SES background, showing a less healthy and active lifestyle. In the past, initiatives have been undertaken to promote active lifestyle by implementing outdoor facilities stimulating physical …

Een lespakket waarin kinderen tussen de 10 en 12 uitleg krijgen over klimaatverandering en -adaptatie en hier een aantal weken lang via opdrachten mee aan de slag gaan

The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen’s participation options. In deprived neighbourhoods, community engagement is central in building community resilience, an important resource for health and a prerequisite …

It is assumed by the projects demonstrating Positive Energy District (PED) concepts in cities across Europe that citizens should want and need to be involved in the development of new energy concepts, such as PEDs for these concepts to be deployed successfully. Six different PED research and innovation …

In the last decade, the number of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has increased in western European countries. Although several success factors and barriers in the development of LEIs have been studied by other scholars, there has been limited scholarly interest in the overall impact of LEIs so far. …